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  1. Google Glass on the Battlefield [video]You might think drones do all the fighting these days, but soldiers are still involved in ground combat, wielding just as impressive technology. The next trend in military tech looks a lot like Google Glass.

     
     

  2. A Robot That Runs Like a Cat [video]

    A Robot That Runs Like a Cat [video] Thanks to the design of its legs, which faithfully mimic feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” shares the advantages of its biological model: it is small, light and runs very fast. In the long term, this type of machine, which is still in an experimental stage, could be used in search and rescue missions or for exploration

     
     

  3. Porn In Numbers - The Infographics Show [video]

     
     

  4. Cryptocat Lets You Chat With Privacy [software]

    We’re developing an easy to use web app that encrypts your conversations. It’s open-source, translated into 32 languages and you already know how to use it. 

    Cryptocat is an open source web application intended to allow secure, encrypted online chatting.Cryptocat encrypts chats on the client side, only trusting the server with data that is already encrypted. Cryptocat is offered as an app for Mac OS X or as a browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.

    Cryptocat intends to provide means for impromptu, encrypted communications that offer more privacy than services such as Google Talk, while maintaining a higher level of accessibility than other high-level encryption platforms, and furthermore allows for multiple users in one chat room.

     
     
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    The Science of Female Desire [podcast 11 minutes]

    Squeezed into these 200 pages are interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists and primatologists who have been “puzzling out the ways of eros in women”; a capsule history of ideas about female sexuality from biblical times to the present; the story of the so-far elusive hunt for a Viagra-type aphrodisiac for women; a discussion of the different types of female orgasm; and the personal accounts of a dozen or so ordinary women who talk about their sex lives and fantasies. The experiments and data Bergner writes about vary widely and don’t all point in the same direction, but he sets this tour of contemporary sex research against one particular shibboleth: the notion that women are naturally less libidinous than men, “hard-wired” to want babies and emotional connection but not necessarily sex itself.

     
     

  6. Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have Nothing to Hide

    What’s the problem with ubiquitous surveillance? Don’t think Orwell; think Kafka.
    When the government gathers or analyzes personal information, many people say they’re not worried. “I’ve got nothing to hide,” they declare. “Only if you’re doing something wrong should you worry, and then you don’t deserve to keep it private.”
    The nothing-to-hide argument pervades discussions about privacy. The data-security expert Bruce Schneier calls it the “most common retort against privacy advocates.” The legal scholar Geoffrey Stone refers to it as an “all-too-common refrain.” In its most compelling form, it is an argument that the privacy interest is generally minimal, thus making the contest with security concerns a foreordained victory for security.

     
     
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    Istanbul: Problemes d’urbanisation et la mouvance Islamique en Turquie [podcast 27 minutes]

     
     

  8. Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman In Space - Seagull in Space [video]

    Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman Cosmonaut - Seagull in Space [video]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

     
     

  9. Do you look like America? [interactive graphics]

    Every few years, the Census Bureau releases its projections for how many people of every possible combination of age, sex, race and ethnicity will live in the United States over the next half century. Curious how many 35-year-old female Hispanic American Indian/Alaskan Natives there will be in 2045? I can tell you. It’s 17,632.

    One might scoff at this sort of datum. How could the Census Bureau possibly know what medical advances will prolong our lives over the next 33 years? Or what geopolitical currents will shift immigration patterns? And what about the robot apocalypse? Will the robots prey on every age group with statistical uniformity?

     
     

  10. Scholars in Bondage

    Academics writing about kink lick the boots of their cultural-studies idols and shackle themselves in jargon.Dogma still dominates studies of kink 

     
     

  11. Can Hot Peppers Knock Out Cancer? [video]

    Super hot peppers can make you sweat and tear up, but CBS News’ Mark Strassmann reports how they also may fight cancer.

     
     

  12. The Art Of Shaving Is Alive And Well [video]

    Michael Dubin got his brush with fame with a viral video when he launched Dollar Shave Club from a Venice, Calif., warehouse. One year later his website has over 200,000 members proving that the art of shaving is alive and well. Serena Altschul reports.